Croatian security and intelligence system: Difference between revisions

 

===2002-2006===

As parliamentary democracy developed in the Republic of Croatia, reforms in security system were continued.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.soa.hr/en/history/poa/ |title=Soa - Poa |publisher=Soa.hr |date= |accessdate=2010-08-10}}</ref> On 19 March 2002, the Croatian Parliament adopted the ''National Security Strategy''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.soa.hr/UserFiles/File/Strategy_Republic_of_Croatia.pdf |title=Strategy for the Republic of Croatia’s National Security |format=PDF |date= |accessdate=2011-09-20}}</ref> The new Strategy, which is oriented toward integration into [[NATO]] and the [[EU]], recognized all the neighboring states, including the [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] (now [[Serbia]] and [[Montenegro]]), as partners in development, not as sources of destabilization. Few days later, on 21 March, the Parliament passed the ''Security Services Act'' (''{{lang|hr|Zakon o sigurnosnim službama Republike Hrvatske}}''). These laws formed the basis for reform of the Croatian intelligence community.<ref name="www1.law.nyu.edu"/>